Covid-19: "We are at a very high level of demand on the health system"

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Nursing staff take care of a patient with Covid-19 in intensive care in Strasbourg on September 15, 2020. AP Photo / Jean-Francois Badias

By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow

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While deconfinement looms, the lights seem green with a drop in hospitalizations and a decrease in the incidence rate for the fourth consecutive week.

However, the virus and its variants are still circulating strongly, and hospital pressure remains high.

Barrier gestures and caution remain in order, Public Health France alert.

Can we envisage a way out of the crisis?

Update on the situation with Dr Alexandre Bleibtreu, infectious disease specialist in the infectious diseases department at La Pitié Salpêtrière hospital. 

  • Health and medicine

  • Coronavirus

  • France

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